We all know garbage in, garbage out. But liberal in, liberal out is an interesting idea, and I'm not sure how you fix it
From a local perspective, it might seem that these are two equal sides. In rural parts of the country, it seems like everyone is a twelver, so the right-wing party has large support.
But from a global perspective, there is no contest. Globally, humanity doesn't want a theocracy, and even most Muslims don't subscribe to that particular flavor of Islam so they don't want that either. Although they might be a majority within their country, globally they are a very, very small and unimportant minority that nobody takes seriously. Because the Internet is a global space, that is exactly how they will be treated. I certainly wouldn't expect ChatGPT to spout their party line, would you?
The same logic applies to all right-wing parties. "America first" might sound good to an American surrounded by other Americans, but it won't be received well in an Internet forum where many people are not American, and won't become part of the global discourse because it's completely irrelevant to the vast majority of humans. On the Internet you don't know anyone's nationality, religion, race etc., and culture can only be "local" to the extent that it is local to a particular website.
Perhaps there should be a ChatGPT edition trained only on pre-internet published literature, private letters, and some well-written journals. But that would introduce different biases and areas of ignorance. At least it may be acceptable if properly advertised as such - "Professor Emeritus AI".
When it comes to published literature, you might be disappointed to find that there is a lot of radical leftist literature out there, just as there is a lot of radical right-libertarian, traditionally conservative, religious fundamentalist, classical liberal, etc. literature out there.
There's a lot more to conservative thought than "my country first". Right-of-centre people from different countries can find many things to agree on other than that. Even when it comes to that topic, many (but far from all) people on the political right believe that "everyone ought to put their own country first", and people from completely different countries can share their agreement with that principle, even if sometimes its application leads them in opposite directions.
Consider issues around gender and sexuality: in most countries in Africa and the Middle East, and also several large countries in Asia, you'll find the clear majority of the population to have rather conservative attitudes to these topics, by Western standards. On those issues, I think it is likely that right-leaning Americans are closer to global majority opinion than left-leaning Americans are.
Coming to religion, a conservative Shi'a Muslim in Iran and a conservative Orthodox Christian in Russia likely agree on a lot more than you seem to think–despite their obvious disagreements on theological questions. They may think that their agreement that the government ought to promote and favour conservative religion is more important than their disagreement over which one. They may even be willing to agree, "I'll support your theocracy in your country if you support my theocracy in mine".
Conservative religion is a lot stronger in the developing world than the rich West, which is another way in which right-leaning Americans are likely closer to global majority opinion than left-leaning Americans are.
This is an empty statement. The internet is vast, and it's filled to the brim with content, from all sides. For a demonstration, check the linked website, and click the Bias categories. Huge amount of publications, in every category.
We know most young people are left leaning. We know most content on the internet is created by young people. It isn't a huge leap that the internet is mostly left leaning. If you don't believe me go post some pro-conservative stuff on the biggest social media platforms.
The international right wing has not finished being an early adopter in their respective countries, which means the international left wing will follow shortly after.
>Other journalists have speculated that ChatGPT is biased due to the politically leaning of “Established sources”, such as academia and legacy journalism. While there is some documentation of OpenAI products being biased towards established sources, this paper reveals a far broader and more extensive intrusion into the “values” of OpenAI’s language models. Specifically, it reveals a direct, intentional attempt to make OpenAI’s language models conform to a set of beliefs, often political, set by the authors.
>This is done by augmenting the language model’s training data with a human-created dataset until it matches the authors’ expectations. https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1
Culture war outrage drives clicks, it's that simple.
We shouldn't care that tyrants are detached or fanatical, we should care that they're tyrants.
> I'm not sure how you fix it
I don't think you can, people are biased, people generated content is biased, these tools train on people generated content, there is no way to get an unbiased AI because unbiased opinions don't exists outside of pure maths/physics/&c. You'll never get an unbiased opinion about politics, or music, or culture
I don't think we can "fix" bias but I think we can and should strive to reduce it.
It is like media – all media is biased, but there are so many different media outlets (especially online), biased in so many different ways, almost certainly you can find some whose bias appeals to you.